PAUL KRUGMAN: The Plot Against Medicare -  Link from Welcome to Pottersville

The plot against Social Security failed: President Bush’s attempt to privatize the system crashed and burned when the public realized what he was up to. But the plot against Medicare is faring better: the stealth privatization embedded in the Medicare Modernization Act, which Congress literally […]

A nice informative piece in the GQPolitics as part of their Presidential candidate series on our very own Huckster. I’d forgotten about what a lucky son of a gun the Huckster was.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s potential as a 2008 Republican presidential contender has long intrigued political pundits.

A former Baptist preacher, Huckabee holds strongly conservative views on social issues that […]

There’s a loving Christian song; It only takes a spark to get a fire going”, and the fall of Kings George’s empire may have been brought down by the spark our Senator Mark Pryor threw when Alberto Gonzales flat assed lied to him about Tim Griffen. Of all the crimes this adminstration will be found […]

If Attorney General Alberto Gonzales had gone to the Senate yesterday to convince the world that he ought to be fired, it’s hard to imagine how he could have done a better job, short of simply admitting the obvious: that the firing of eight United States attorneys was a partisan purge.
Mr. Gonzales came across as […]